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| Joel Martin with Jack Norton at the Rededication
of the Costo Library, February 2002. |
Dr. Norton is of Hupa and Cherokee descent and an enrolled
member of the Yurok tribe. For over twenty years, he has participated
in the Native American communities of Northern California as
a spiritual singer and dancer. He is Professor Emeritus in
Ethnic Studies at California State University, Humboldt. He
was one of the early pioneers in Native American Studies at
California universities, teaching for 27 years as a professor
of Ethnic Studies at Humboldt State. Norton continues to actively
lecture on the topics of genocide and cultural survival of
American Indians, doing educational advocacy through a new
organization which he and his wife Jana have created, and plans
to publish more on these related topics. The Nortons are also
both doing educational advocacy work through their Center for
the Affirmation of Responsible Education (CARE). Norton, in
collaboration with his wife Jana and Humboldt State Sociology
graduate student Thomas Hunnicutt, has co-authored and published
The Teacher’s Source Guide on Genocide (Bridge Gulch
Massacre) for use at the K-16 levels. The Bridge Gulch Massacre
occurred 1853, and stands out as one of the worst atrocities
ever committed to American Indians in northwestern California
and the entire U.S. The Nortons are working with Cahuilla Indian
scholar and UC Riverside graduate student, Anthony Madrigal,
on a Language Arts reader for grades 9-12. The reader will
focus on the Southern California experience entitled, Helen
Hunt Jackson and the Western Mind. The Nortons are also in
the process of issuing a new series of publications on the
topics of genocide and cultural survival of American Indians.
Yet another volume which Jack and Jana are working on is To
Bear Witness: California Indian History as Living Testimony,
a book of prose and poetry. |
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